We often forget, in our attempts to be funny or critical (or both) in our role as fans that we're dealing with human beings here, but I commend you for having the guts to come back and recant as you did.
Thanks for the kind words Jmodene. I feel terrible for Josh and his family.
We often forget, in our attempts to be funny or critical (or both) in our role as fans that we're dealing with human beings here, but I commend you for having the guts to come back and recant as you did.
Thanks for the kind words Jmodene. I feel terrible for Josh and his family.
You shouldn't feel bad. You didn't value his life less than anyone else. Baseball is a game, and as such we place our opinions on someone as a player, and not a person. If you insulted him as a person, you'd have reason to feel bad, but you didn't.
Well, sometimes the player and the person are inseparable.
I remember Jim Bouton writing that if, say, cancer researchers had the same kind of pressure on them as baseball players do, we'd've had a cure for cancer years ago - because the researchers would have either been released or sent down because "they weren't discovering cures fast enough."
We often forget, in our attempts to be funny or critical (or both) in our role as fans that we're dealing with human beings here, but I commend you for having the guts to come back and recant as you did.
Thanks for the kind words Jmodene. I feel terrible for Josh and his family.
You shouldn't feel bad. You didn't value his life less than anyone else. Baseball is a game, and as such we place our opinions on someone as a player, and not a person. If you insulted him as a person, you'd have reason to feel bad, but you didn't.
This game will be the one I'll always remember Hancock by.
Rolen let a DP ball go through his legs that tied the game up and sent it to extras. Hancock was the last reliever left in the bullpen and pitched 3 shutout innings before giving up the go ahead run to the Cubs in his 4th.
We ended up losing in the 14th, but the impression was never lost on me. I've been a fan ever since.
